🇮🇳 Karnataka fact checks

Sugar price hike: MCCI voices food product manufacturing industry’s concerns

Eight lift irrigation projects under way in Kalyana Karnataka region

Estimated at ₹1,811 crore, they will help fill 88 tanks and strengthen irrigation facilities in the region, says Minister Ajay Singh

In Karnataka, employment generation under VB-G RAM G yet to pick up

While 61.48 lakh person-days and 36.15 lakh person-days were generated in July and August, respectively, under MGNREGA across Karnataka in 2025, only about 17.98 lakh person-days and 26.27 lakh person-days were generated in July and August, respectively, this year under the newly launched VB-G RAM G scheme

Three women killed, several injured in road accident near Madnal village

Sources say that the accident occurred when the driver lost control of the vehicle causing it to ram an electricity pole

BJP MLA urges govt. to cancel all 4,350 MUDA sites allotted under 50:50 scheme

Focus on moral values in education, says Pralhad Joshi

The new National Education Policy has given additional emphasis on skill development and value-based teaching: Union Minister

KPSC 'scam' case: ED raids IAS officer Gangwar's premises in Karnataka, U.P.

Officials said IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar’s premises in Bengaluru and Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly were searched under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)

Doctor calls for organ donation to meet demand, offer healthy life for patients

Shantinagara Airport Bus Lounge falls into neglect, raises concerns over passenger safety and maintenance

During a visit by The Hindu, the lounge was found with its lights switched off, while the waiting area and washrooms showed visible signs of poor maintenance

Bengaluru’s parking overhaul: Who pays, where you can park and who enforces it | Explained

The new rules envision a structured way of implementing paid parking through the identification and expansion of parking spaces across the city, while also seeking to monetise free spaces and residential stretches for paid parking

Mangaluru under SWR: Railway activists and people’s representatives say it will boost infrastructure and connectivity

They say Keralam CM’s statement that the change will affect their railway development amounts to admission that Mangaluru region fed the neighbouring State’s infrastructure

SIR reports 16.38 lakh deceased voters, four times Karnataka’s average annual deaths

The scale of the electoral-roll figure raises a broader question on how long these names had remained on the rolls, and how many elections were conducted with the names of dead voters still appearing on the electoral rolls

HOPCOMS to supply bananas to Bengaluru retailers at lower wholesale prices

Presently, in the unorganised sector, middlemen make the most profit on bananas, which HOPCOMS wants to change.

3,289 forest offence cases registered in Chamarajanagar forest circle since 2010-11

According to the data, the highest number of cases, 2,256, was registered in the M.M. Hills Wildlife Division, followed by 793 cases in the BRT Tiger Reserve and 240 cases in the Cauvery Wildlife Division

Karnataka bans sale of analogue paneer under the name ‘paneer’ for one year

Under the food safety regulations, paneer is a standardised milk product, and milk fat is an essential constituent. The use of vegetable oil, vegetable fat or other non-dairy ingredients in place of milk fat or milk solids is not permitted in a product sold as paneer

Seven cows stolen from shed in Parappana Agrahara

HDK alleges State government of favouring NICE

User Development Fee reduced at Bengaluru’s KIA, but arriving passengers will also have to pay

The revised AERA tariff will come into effect from September 1 and remain applicable until August 2029; important change under the new order is the introduction of UDF for both arriving and departing passengers

Play by Praveen Godkhindiin Belagavi on August 23

CBI seeks sanction for prosecution against Minister B. Nagendra

Gopichand Tandle to receive PJAB honour for contribution to news photography

MLA seeks another women’s polytechnic college for Hubballi

Raising the issue through a starred question in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, Abbayya referred to the information provided by the Higher Education Minister that Karnataka had 109 government, 43 aided, and 135 private polytechnic colleges in 2025-26

Centre promises more direct flights from Mysuru

MP Yaduveer Wadiyar pushes for direct flights, faster Mysuru airport expansion; seeks four new air routes

Karnataka police have identified 771 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in three years: Home Department

The data shows that of the 771 identified, 656 were found to be living in Bengaluru city and 44 in Bengaluru district.

Two years after opening, Vijayanagar’s underground air-conditioned bazaar still awaits vendors

Modelled on Delhi’s Palika Bazaar, the underground market in the city was built at a cost of ₹13 crore and has 79 shops, several of which have air conditioning

Caste survey report figures in discussion on Devaraja Urs

Only two districts have received normal southwest monsoon in Karnataka

South interior Karnataka has received a deficit of -40%, with the coastal districts at -24%, north interior Karnataka at -20 to 30% and Bengaluru city at -50%

Caste certificate delay: Govt. likely to extend time for job applications

Karnataka to reject Centre’s fresh draft notification on Eco-Sensitive Area in Western Ghats

Reddy says there was no need to evict anyone from the ESA area, as the draft notification had not specifically banned activities like farming

Kolalu Dot Comedy to be staged in Hubballi tomorrow

Flautist Praveen Godkhindi’s musical play will be staged at the Sawai Gandharva Hall in Deshpande Nagar in memory of Sardeshpande

Prisoner who escaped from Kalaburagi jail arrested

Magisterial inquiry report into Hanur firing incident will be submitted on August 22: Ramalinga Reddy

Minister Madhu Bangarappa assures fulfilment of midday meal workers’ demands, including minimum wage

New millet processing facility comes up at CSIR-CFTRI

SDPI leader booked for derogatory remarks against MLC C.T. Ravi

Cancel all illegal allotment of MDA sites under 50:50 ratio scheme since 2019, S.R. Mahesh urges Yathindra

Conductor suspended for letting student issue tickets on KKRTC bus

He left the electronic ticketing machine unattended which was used by the student to issue 11 tickets to passengers on the bus

Two killed in bus mishap on Mangaluru-Bengaluru highway

BJP disrupts Karnataka Assembly demanding list of drought-hit taluks, exit of B. Nagendra from Cabinet

Leader of Opposition R. Ashok said the government had neither reviewed the situation nor prepared a list of taluks facing severe drought following a deficit monsoon

Mother, baby found dead in Alur in Hassan district of Karnataka

The police suspect that the woman ended her life after killing her son